That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo nightclub. Assistant general manager Javi Ramirez discovered the snake weeks later, ...

Our pets can form some pretty unexpected friendships, like a cat and dog who are inseparable, or in this case, a dog who loves cuddling with a snake. Yep, you read that right! A 6-year-old Golden ...

A Florida resident received an unexpected shock on Wednesday when they discovered a ball python coiled around the engine of their vehicle. The unusual discovery quickly led to a call for assistance.

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — A ball python was spotted at Beavertail State Park in Jamestown, and after several months of searching, the snake has finally been captured. The Rhode Island Department of ...

Stanza by stanza and line by line, people from The Arc of Blackstone Valley Flying Shuttles performed poetry in Pawtucket. Family speaks out after Rhode Island Capitol Police recruit dies The family ...

Such a Florida way of problem solving. It’s no secret that Florida has a python problem. Thanks to exotic animals trading and Floridians releasing their pet snakes into the wild, Burmese pythons were ...

MARTIN COUNTY — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Oct. 21 announced a new partnership with a Miami-based company to help remove more invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades, where they have decimated native ...

An ecologist visited a national park in Australia and found a massive python crossing the road, a “rare sighting,” officials said. Screengrab of Tali Moyle’s video shared on Facebook by the National ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Sergeant Carlos Atola, left, and a sheriff’s deputy captured a 14-foot Burmese python recently near U.S. 1, a six-lane road in a densely populated suburb of Miami-Dade. Courtesy Pinecrest Police ...

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...